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Dave & Anni

Don’t miss the next guest night at The Village when Dave Webber and Anni Fentiman visit us from way up north. They bring the delights of traditional songs of the north-east, the brilliant songs from Dave’s own pen and a wealth of lovely harmonies. They believe in doing things big time viz their wedding photo …

They joined forces in 1985, after spending many years around the folk club scene, in which time they featured on several albums made by other performers.

Within a short time they teamed up with friends Charley Yarwood and his wife Cathy to form the acapella harmony group Beggars Velvet. The group were very soon in demand for clubs and festivals and recorded their only album, Lady of Autumn. They made two tours of the USA in 1990 and 1991 before they stopped performing together in 1993 after eight very successful and happy years.

Since then Dave and Anni have continued to work as a duo, making their duo debut on stage at the Eisteddfod Festival in Dartmouth Massachusetts in 1993 to begin a very successful career as a harmony duo, working largely acapella and featuring mainly traditional and traditional idiom material. They have worked extensively in the UK and the USA to much acclaim and now have five albums of their own to set alongside the Beggars Velvet recording, which is still in demand after many pressings.

Their fame abounds!

Dave and Anni have featured on both local and national radio in Britain and also performed a live concert (with studio audience) for Radio WGBH in Boston, USA.

Although Dave and Anni perform substantially at home in the UK they also make at least one trip each year to the United States, where they have an established following and have also performed in Holland, Denmark and Finland.

Anni has developed a specialist repertoire of songs originating from her native North East, and Dave has been writing songs in traditional vein since 1982 many of these are widely sung and have become part of the general song repertoire of singers all over the world.

John Warner Australia:
I am awed! I listened to Banners, then went back and listened to the other hair raising, spine tingling material until I got to Banners. To hear raw, rich English voices, evocative of mining, rural life, the mills and ten thousand noisy pubs is enough in itself. To suddenly find one of my own songs hauled into that tradition and given its full fire, hammer and anvil shaping is unimaginably uplifting. You've done glorious honour to the song.

Warwick Folk Festival:
It's a magical experience whenever these two fine singers put their voices together. As for their harmonies, they are breathtaking.

Dirty Linen Magazine USA:
Dave's songs are very strong, they also have a solidly traditional feel to them.

National Folk Music Festival England:
The enthusiasm of these two fine singers for traditional and traditional style songs, comes through hot and strong, whether singing together or solo.

Make sure you bring your voices!

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